Charopa is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Charopidae.

Charopa
Paratype specimens of Charopa longstaffae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Charopidae
Genus: Charopa
Martens, 1860[1]
Synonyms[2]

Endodonta (Charopa) Albers, 1860

Charopa is the type genus of the family Charopidae.[3]

Species edit

Species within the genus Charopa include:

References edit

  1. ^ von Martens E. (1860) Die Heliceen, nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig., ed. 2: page 87.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Marshall, B. (2016). Charopa Martens, 1860. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818722 on 2016-06-19
  3. ^ Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  4. ^ Vermeulen J. J. & Marzuki M. E. (2014). "‘Charopa’ lafargei (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Charopidae), a new, presumed narrowly endemic species from Peninsular Malaysia". Basteria 78(1-3): 31-34.
  5. ^ Made the type species of a separate genus Dendropa by Marshall & Worthy (2017). See: Bruce A. Marshall; Trevor H. Worthy (2017). "Miocene land snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata) from palaeolake Manuherikia, southern New Zealand". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 47 (4): 294–318. doi:10.1080/03036758.2017.1287101. S2CID 134943274.